Goofs

During the first fire mission in the artillery unit, a man in full uniform wearing a shirt is present when the coordinates are called out. This man is not present in the pit in the wider shots before and after.

The entire battle took place in a torrential tropical downpour from start to finish. Evidently, this would be hard to film for dramatic purposes. The airstrike never happened not because of a dud smoke grenade, but the cloud was so low and rain so intense the pilots could not identity the target area.

Trees and shrubs are shown inside the perimeter and even inside the base, despite the fact that all foliage was cleared, sometimes up to two kilometres, around to minimize the possibility of the enemy sneaking up undetected.

The RAAF personnel are incorrectly referred to as Captain and Lieutenant. Their correct ranks are Group Captain (equivalent to an army colonel) and Flight Lieutenant (equivalent to an army captain).

When groups of infantry soldiers are shown patrolling, moving through open areas, not only are they too close together, they are all holding their rifles pointing to the right. In a tactical situation when not actually under fire, each soldier would be assigned an arc to cover to front, left, right, or the rear, and they would move so that their eyes and weapons were covering that arc, occasionally looking around to check terrain and the location of the other soldiers in the group.

Rank epaulettes Lt Col Townsend wore in the movie were that of a Colonel not a Lt Colonel.

When calling the final roll call, you can see one of the 'dead' soldiers lying on the ground blink.

During the chat between Smith and Large after the mortar attack, Smith is questioning Large's use of the M16A1 over the L1A1 SLR, but during the attack the night before, Smith is clearing seen using an M16 himself.

The infantrymen are shown holding their weapons with the stock in front of the right upper arm. This only became standard practice during the 1980s. Prior to that, the stock would have been held under the armpit when patrolling or moving tactically.